Theatre of Fish - Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador

Informationen zum Autor John Gimlette is a well-established travel writer! having won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award. He writes regularly for a number of broadsheets. His first book! At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay ! was published in 2003 to massive critical acclaim. When not probing the extreme corners of the Earth he practises as a barrister in London. Klappentext Subtitled! "Travels Through Newfoundland & Labrador". An extraordinary journey across a magnificent and bizarre coast. Zusammenfassung John Gimlette's travels through this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, and who was witness to some of the most beautiful ice and cruelest poverty in the British Empire.

Product details

• Authors: John Gimlette
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.05.2006
• EAN: 9780099453253
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945325-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Travel writing